The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.301

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⁷ Lat. 15° 30', long. 73° 57'; Indian Atlas, sheet No. 41.—This is in accordance with the always accepted identification, which, even if there is no direct evidence to support it, there seems no reason to call in question. Gôva or Goa is, indeed, also the name of a fort near Harnai and Suvarṇadurg in the Ratnâgiri District (see the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. X. Ratnâgiri and Sâwantwâḍi, pp. 335, 337). But this locality does not appear to have been of any importance until the sixteenth century A.D. (ibid, p. 338). On the other hand, the Portuguese Goa was one of the seats of power of the Vijayanagara dynasty in the fourteenth century (ibid, p. 439).